Legal News

An attorney who continued to practice law despite being suspended in Indiana has been disbarred by the Indiana Supreme Court
for his “on-going, pervasive and deliberate” violations of the suspension order.

For only the second time, the Indiana Court of Appeals has addressed the issue of evidence used to obtain a conviction under
I.C. 35-46-3-8, which outlaws buying or owning an animal for an animal fighting contest.

The Indiana Tax Court Wednesday agreed with the Indiana Department of State Revenue that two claims made by a company appealing
its tax liability should be dismissed because legal relief cannot be granted.

The Indiana Supreme Court ruled in favor of Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard Wednesday in a dispute between the mayor and Democratic
members of the city-county council who challenged a redistricting plan passed in late 2011.

The legal malpractice action filed by a man who pleaded guilty to money laundering – when he had the possibility to
plead guilty to a misdemeanor if not for his attorney’s actions – will proceed after the Indiana Court of Appeals
affirmed the denial of the attorney’s motion for summary judgment.

The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a man’s sentence for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, finding the trial
court had no authority to order his present sentence, enhanced by the habitual substance offender statute, to be served consecutively
to his previously enhanced sentences.

A recent Indiana attorney disciplinary order quickly prompted some analysts to predict the ruling would have a chilling effect
on lawyers here and around the country. But the case also involved pursuit of discipline that a court-appointed hearing officer
called “disconcerting.”

A man who claims he suffered a bone-breaking beating at the hands of school employees providing security at his son’s
high school football game may proceed with a federal lawsuit against the school district.

A man born in Burma whose employment at a Mooresville factory was terminated after co-workers complained about his behavior
failed to persuade the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate his claim of discrimination based on national origin.

Plaintiffs in Love v. Pence, the first lawsuit filed in March challenging Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage,
filed their response to the state’s motion to dismiss their complaint, arguing the governor has the power to order county
clerks to issue marriage licenses.

A man convicted of murder for the 2005 shooting death of a 15-year-old on a Gary street wasn’t prejudiced by his attorney’s
refusal to object to a prosecutor’s comments about the defendant’s failure to testify, the 7th Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled Friday.

The public defender appointed to represent convicted fraudster and former leading personal-injury attorney William Conour
has asked the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to withdraw from the case, citing an unspecified conflict of interest.

The former executive director of the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee was charged Thursday with 26 counts of forgery
and one count of theft for allegedly misappropriating more than $96,000 of the organization’s money.

A trial court erred in granting summary judgment to an insurance company that argued a driver injured in a car crash could
not collect on an underinsured motorist policy because she received payments from other sources in excess of her policy limits.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday turned away a citizen-led appeal of rulings favorable to the Environmental Protection
Agency in an ongoing cleanup of a former Westinghouse Electric Corp. plant that polluted the Bloomington site with toxic PCBs.

Blogger Daniel Brewington’s convictions for intimidating Dearborn Circuit Judge James Humphrey and obstruction of justice
were upheld by the Indiana Supreme Court Thursday, but under different reasoning than the Indiana Court of Appeals applied.

The southern Indiana school corporation that facilitated renovations of its warehouse through an agreement with a local public
school endowment organization violated Indiana Public Bidding Laws, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The justices
rejected taxpayers’ claims that the process also constituted a violation of the Antitrust Law.